Henry VIII may have been the wealthiest monarch in British history. A 1547 inventory of Henry VIII's property estimated that his jewels, tapestries and palaces were worth about 300,000 British ...

became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. In the first years of his reign Henry VIII ...

Thomas Cromwell was an English statesman and adviser to Henry VIII, responsible for drafting the legislation that formalised England's religious and political break with Rome during the 1530s.